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Human evolution

The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Jamshid J. Tehrani

Getting to the Bottom of Face Processing. Species-Specific Inversion Effects for Faces and Behinds in Humans and Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)

Mariska E. Kret, Masaki Tomonaga

Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant

Miki Ben-Dor, Avi Gopher, Israel Hershkovitz, Ran Barkai

A Sex Difference in the Predisposition for Physical Competition: Males Play Sports Much More than Females Even in the Contemporary U.S

Robert O. Deaner, David C. Geary, [ ... ], Terry Grandis

The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship

Jevin D. West, Jennifer Jacquet, [ ... ], Carl T. Bergstrom

Variation in Foot Strike Patterns during Running among Habitually Barefoot Populations

Kevin G. Hatala, Heather L. Dingwall, Roshna E. Wunderlich, Brian G. Richmond

Impact of Carnivory on Human Development and Evolution Revealed by a New Unifying Model of Weaning in Mammals

Elia Psouni, Axel Janke, Martin Garwicz

Fairness Expectations and Altruistic Sharing in 15-Month-Old Human Infants

Marco F. H. Schmidt, Jessica A. Sommerville

The Advantage of Standing Up to Fight and the Evolution of Habitual Bipedalism in Hominins

David R. Carrier

Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Brain Size in Primates

Michael A. Schillaci

Experimental Insights into the Cognitive Significance of Early Stone Tools

Mark W. Moore, Yinika Perston

Unique Dental Morphology of Homo floresiensis and Its Evolutionary Implications

Yousuke Kaifu, Reiko T. Kono, [ ... ], Rokus Due Awe

Fear of Darkness, the Full Moon and the Nocturnal Ecology of African Lions

Craig Packer, Alexandra Swanson, Dennis Ikanda, Hadas Kushnir

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